intriguer
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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
He is a fairly skillful intriguer who deliberately unleashed forces he may no longer be able to control, even if he wanted to.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major.
From Time Magazine Archive
But you are also an intriguer, a shameless intriguer; she follows your advice.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
